Rubio, Atwater to RPOF: Release the audit

UPDATE: RPOF Chairman John Thrasher has agreed to release the audit:
"The Executive Board of the Republican Party of Florida unanimously
voted today, during a conference call, to release the forensic audit of
the party’s finances detailing the gross mismanagement of the Party
under Gov. Charlie Crist and his hand-picked chairman Jim Greer. The
audit by Alston & Bird LLP will be released Friday.”

The Tampa Tribune reported earlier that Marco Rubio supports releasing the long-awaited forensic audit of the Republican Party's finances. Now, Senate President Jeff Atwater
is saying he too supports the release. That means both Republican
statewide candidates who had Amex cards have called for the audit's
release.

"Jeff Atwater supports the release of the RPOF audit and has
consistently called for transparency and public disclosure in the audit
process," said Atwater campaign spokesman Brian Hughes.

New party spokesman Dan Conston said the party "will have an update" regarding the audit on Friday, but did not say whether the audit will be released.

More from Hughes: "Last April, he asked the party to release the
account records for a credit card that was issued in his name. Those
records were released and demonstrated the same transparency and fiscal
responsibility that he is renowned for.

In fact, the records led the Miami Herald to call Atwater a "cheap
date." The Herald report went on to say that Atwater did "what any good
banker should do: he pinched his pennies."